DC612 – Thursday August 10th, 6pm @ WildeRoast

We made it to August ladies and gentlemen! 

I trust we all made it back from Hacker summer camp safe and sound.

Traditionally we have taken August off at DC612 to rest and recoup. However, this year we’re trying something new.

Join us this Thursday at the usual time, at the usual place for an old fashion Hacker Dinner Party.

No speaker  –  No agenda  – Come as you are as always.

DC612 – Thursday July 13th, 6pm @ WildeRoast

Its Web Security month at DC612!

In celebration of Web (in)Security, we are welcoming a special guest, Damodar Chetty.  He will be talking to us about the importance of Application Security and a popular OWASP tool used to test applications, ZAP!

Web Application Vulnerability Testing with OWASP’s ZAP and Webgoat

OWASP’s ZAP is an amazingly full featured web hacking toolkit – combining an intercepting proxy with HTTPS support, spidering, as well as passive and active vulnerability scanning capabilities. It also has a great pedigree – it is a flagship project of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and started life as a fork of the Paros proxy. And the best part is that unlike its competition, ZAP is completely free! All this results in a package that provides an easy entry into the world of web application vulnerability testing. In this hour, we’ll consider how to leverage the features of this interesting tool against an intentionally vulnerable web application – OWASP’s WebGoat. In the process, we’ll also discuss some common web application vulnerabilities, including Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF).

Presenter Details

Damodar is an educator, software engineer and life-long student who has spent the last three decades architecting and building software systems in a wide variety of technologies. He has worked for Ameriprise, Best Buy, US Bank, Thomson Reuters, Pearson Vue and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and is currently a Principal Architect for Wealth Management at US Bank. He is the author of “Tomcat 6 — A Developer’s Guide” and was a technical editor for the Third Edition of Core JavaServer Faces (Geary, Horstmann). He satisfies his passion for education by teaching at Metropolitan State University in St Paul and providing corporate training.

Additional Jabber

If you are planning to come to the War Driving event on 7/15, come by on the 13th to get some of your burning questions answered!

And we should probably talk about a 612 get together at DEF CON.

DC612 – Thursday June 8th, 6pm @ WildeRoast

Thursday, June 8th, DC612 Projects will kick off with its

first category, Recon.

What tools do you bring to a Recon mission?  

We'll talk about the Tools, Reconning your digital life 
and listen in on an overly chatty home brewing system.

Bonus Banter:

More War Driving planning.

DC612 meetup in Vegas!

See everyone @WildeRoast

DC612 – Thursday May 11th, 6pm @ Wilde Roast

Spring is in the air, and with that DC612 Projects is right around the corner.

Before we launch into the DC612 Projects debut in June with Recon month, Josh More will be brining you a Presentation on Presentations

or better said “How to Suck Less at Presenting”.

We will discover how not use bullet points when there are so many appealing varieties and much much more.

No doubt there will also be War Drive planning by @tactifail and the continued search for a sticker tsar/czar or maybe a Ctzicker Ctzar.

DC612 – Thursday April 13th, 6PM @ Wilde Roast

This Thursday, April 13th, come out to play with your local DC group!

Everyone’s favorite,  SlideDeck Roulette will be the nights entertainment.

Think you want to get good at presenting a topic?  Ever wonder how those improve comedy performers do it?  Taking the best of both worlds, we now give you SlideDeck Roulette.  Here’s how it works – when your turn is up, we shuffle the deck and present you 5 ‘never seen by you’ slides. You have 3-5 minutes to present on whatever you think the topic might be?  Get creative.  Sure, you don’t know the topic – But your audience is just as clueless as you.

*Rules governing SlideDeck roulette will be fast and loose.

**Bring your laptop to throw your own SlideDeck in the mix.